St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-26
IN RUSSIA'S DEFENSE.
An American Resident Of the
Cars Domain Tells What
He Knows.
He is Particularly Severe on
Messrs. MeGlynn, Drury
and Ingers0ll.
the NihiliStS Painted in New
ColorS---Their Interest
in Labor.
Insight Into Life in Siberia---
A Much Overdrawn
Picture.
special Correspondence of the Globe.


the United States is led by German
anarchist, who was recently denied the
rights of citizenship, well-known So
cialist, an accommodated Catholic
priest, whose vanity caused him to
break his VOW of obedience, a notorious
infdel and Russian Jews. That this
unsavOry gang are capable of doing
much mischief is unfortunately true,
but that it is possible for them to intiu-
ence public opinion or affect legislation
on an important international question
relating to the interests of the United
States and Russia is simply preposter-
Gus. DIR. McGlynn addressed a meet
ing in New York and said:
He was not there to defend the assassina-
ton of the ear. But if he were to read in
the morning papers that the ear had been
killed he would not put Grape upon his hat.
Laughter and cheers He was, however.
there to say that there were noble. heroic.
pure-spirited, Self-denying men who did de-
sire the killing of the car and who felt that
they were doing the noblest thing for their
country in trying to kill the ear.
Mr.. Victor Drury at the same meeting
stated THAT no nihiliSt. no revOlutionist,
could have desired anything more rad
zeal to have been spoken than that which
had been said that night by Dr. Nc
Glynn. DR.. McGlynn furthers said that:
A very large part of this affection for Rus
STA was attributable TO the attitude taken by
the Russian government during the late civil
war in America. This action of the russian
government was due to selfshness. r It
was needtul, however, to make careful dis
tinction between the Russian government
and its magnificent people.
IT Is INDUSTRIOUS
for a man who once exercised the sacred
functions OF a priest to publicly sane
ton a cOWardly assassination. The late
Emperor Alexander III. freed millions
of white slaves by a single stroke of
his pen,. while great and glorious
America was obliged to sacrifice hun
dredS of thousands of men and untold
wealth in order to emancipate the black
slaves of the United States. Alexander
III. lost his life on account of that mer-
ciful and brave stroke of his pen.
There are many well-informed people
i'll Russia who believe that all the evils
of nihilism are due to the emancipation
OF the serfs. Those who have no other
quarrel with nihiliStS complain that,
like the proverbial i'll bird, they bring
their native country into disrepute with
foreigners by the abuse they lavish
upon it and the mendacious re-
IlulllSIS.
on the best authority, are very small
body; their chiefs are ruined. discon-
tented mobiles, who never fOrgave the
late emperor for emancipOting the serfs,
and were determined to have their re-
venge, but they dared not have effected
his murder if it had not been for the
treaty of Berlin. They only want con-
StitutiOn because they know it could be
nothing but an Oligarchy, and they hope
to get their old control over the peasants
again. The nihiliSt struggle has now
been going on for thlrty-fiye years, and
is iii reality the old struggle between
Imperialism and the ariStOcracy. under
another name, that in previous genera
tons has caused the death of so MANY
Russian SOvereignS. If, as the revolu-
tionists claim, they comprise all the in
tellect and education of Russia, that
would indeed be at low ebb, for their
historical information is greatly below
the average, and their books are alb
StractS of
SENSATIONAL STORIES
culled from the least reliable organs of
the foreign press. Fifteen years ago
nihilism was looked upon as rather a
joke at st. Petersburg. Eccentric beings
were pointed out in the streets as nihil-
lists, young men wearing scarfs or
plalds instead of outer coats, and ladies'
in ulSterS, SpectacleS, small round hats
and short hair, generally smoking cigar
cites. 1t is a common idea in America
that under an absolute monarchy
nothing is done for the working classes,
but this is certainly mistake in Rus
sla. The working class, or peasants,
are 100000 out of population of 1OO,-
100000, and this numerical superiority
makes them very important element
IN the country. Both the government
ard the nihillsts know this and make eff
forts to attract them. But who
first endeavored to alleviate the condi-
ton of the working class in Russia?
Not the part of the nation from which
the nlhlllsts have sprung, most assur-
edly. but the sovereign. Even in the
days of the Emperor Nicholas, he Short
ened the hours of labor in manufacto-
ries,. he forbade young children to be
employed. and placed estates under a
sOrtof regency to be administered for
the benefit of the heirs, if a landowner
were proved guilty of great cruelty and
injustice to his Serfs. At last the serfs
were emancipated in 1861 by the EN-
peror Alexander Ii. after immense op-
position. The nihilists now pretend
that the mobiles were well disposed to it,
but their memories are very short on
the subject. The landowners made a
most obstinate resistance to the enamel
patton, and, II any proof were wanting
the numerous speeches the late en-
peror, who was the most silent of
princes, found it necessary to make on
every occasion in favor of the measure
would be sufficient. In 1855 more than
hundred
LANDOWNERS WE'RE MURDERED
by their serfs, and people would hardly
believe now the stories of cruelty and
oppression to which the serfs were
sometimes subjected by their masters
or by foreign stewards. When the serfs
were emancipated, the emperor said
they must be educated to enable them
to avoid eXtortion and being led into
SHARES by those with more worldly
knowledge than themselves-an obser-
walton which did not increase his popu-
larity with the upper class. Twenty
three thousand schools were established.
and the system of teaching was admir-
able and far better than that pursued i'm
either Germany or France. The Young
men OF Russia whose fathers were serfS
have been educated in these schools.
The man who has been slave is said to
make the worst tyrant, and some of
theSe young men are now Influenced
by the ruined landowners who
nave turned nihilists, and the
savage blood which ran i'm their
uneducated fathers veins has not vet
been obliterated by civilization. Hence
the reckless barbarity of the nihilists.
A leading member of their body de-
clared that he should feel quite Justified
In Staying 10000 innocent men if bv
that means he could reach the late EN-
peror. In fact, thirty-tive faithful SOL
diers OF the guard were killed or horri
bly, mntilated in an attempt to blow up
the Winter palace. and nineteen were
killed or frightfully wounded by the
same bombshells which killed the EN-
peror. Nothing can be more intolerant
than the nihilists toward people who do
not hold their opinions. The murder of
the policemen at Chicago last year
shnuld teach A marinanS 4hn ..a1,.e e